Isaiah 52–53

52“Wake up, wake up;

put on your strength, Zion!

Put on your beautiful garments, ⁿ

Jerusalem, the Holy City! ^o

For the uncircumcised and the unclean

will no longer enter you. ^p

²Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!

Take your seat, Jerusalem.

Remove the bonds ^qfrom your neck,

captive Daughter Zion.”

³For this is what the Lord says:

“You were sold for nothing,

and you will be redeemed without silver.” ^r

⁴For this is what the Lord God says:

“At first My people went down to Egypt to live there, ^s

then Assyria oppressed them without cause. ^t

⁵So now what have I here”—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

“that My people are taken away for nothing?

Its rulers wail”—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

“and My name is continually blasphemed all day long. ^u

⁶Therefore My people will know My name; ^v

therefore they will know on that day

that I am He who says:

Here I am.”

⁷How beautiful on the mountains

are the feet of the herald,

who proclaims peace,

who brings news of good things, ^w

who proclaims salvation,

who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” ^x

⁸The voices of your watchmen ^y—

they lift up their voices,

shouting for joy together;

for every eye will see

when the Lord returns to Zion.

⁹Be joyful, rejoice together,

you ruins of Jerusalem! ^z

For the Lord has comforted His people; ^a

He has redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰The Lord has displayed His holy arm

in the sight of all the nations; ^b

all the ends of the earth will see

the salvation of our God. ^c

¹¹Leave, leave, go out from there! ^d

Do not touch anything unclean;

go out from her, purify yourselves, ^e

you who carry the vessels of the Lord.

¹²For you will not leave in a hurry, ^f

and you will not have to take flight;

because the Lord is going before you, ^g

and the God of Israel is your rear guard. ^h

The Servant’s Suffering and Exaltation

¹³See, My Servant ^ijwill act wisely; ^k

He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted. ^l

¹⁴Just as many were appalled at You ^m—

His appearance was so disfigured

that He did not look like a man,

and His form did not resemble a human being—

¹⁵so He will sprinkle ^nomany nations. ^pq

Kings will shut their mouths because of Him,

For they will see what had not been told them,

and they will understand what they had not heard. ^r

53Who has believed what we have heard? ^s

And who has the arm of the Lord ^tbeen revealed to? ^u

²He grew up before Him like a young plant ^v

and like a root out of dry ground.

He didn’t have an impressive form

or majesty that we should look at Him,

no appearance that we should desire Him. ^w

³He was despised and rejected by men, ^x

a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. ^y

He was like someone people turned away from; ^z

He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

⁴Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses,

and He carried our pains; ^a

but we in turn regarded Him stricken,

struck down by God, ^band afflicted.

⁵But He was pierced because of our transgressions, ^c

crushed because of our iniquities; ^d

punishment ^efor our peace was on Him,

and we are healed by His wounds. ^f

⁶We all went astray like sheep; ^g

we all have turned to our own way;

and the Lord has punished Him

for ^hthe iniquity ⁱof us all. ^j

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted,

yet He did not open His mouth.

Like a lamb led to the slaughter

and like a sheep silent before her shearers,

He did not open His mouth. ^k

⁸He was taken away because of oppression and judgment;

and who considered His fate? ^l

For He was cut off from the land of the living;

He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.

⁹They ^mmade His grave with the wicked

and with a rich man at His death, ⁿ

although He had done no violence

and had not spoken deceitfully. ^o

¹⁰Yet the Lord was pleased ^pto crush Him severely. ^qr

When ^sYou make Him a restitution offering, ^t

He will see His seed, He will prolong His days,

and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished. ^u

¹¹He will see it ^vout of His anguish,

and He will be satisfied with His knowledge.

My righteous ^wServant ^xwill justify many, ^y

and He will carry their iniquities.

¹²Therefore I will give Him ^zthe many as a portion,

and He will receive ^athe mighty as spoil,

because He submitted Himself to death, ^b

and was counted among the rebels; ^c

yet He bore the sin of many ^d

and interceded for the rebels. ^e